Conquest vs Invade - What's the difference?
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Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
(figuratively, by extenstion) An act or instance of an obstacle.
* Prescott
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That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
* Shakespeare
(feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
(colloquial, figurative) A person with whom one has had sex.
To move into.
* Spenser
To enter by force in order to conquer.
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To infest or overrun.
To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
As verbs the difference between conquest and invade
is that conquest is to conquer while invade is to move into.As a noun conquest
is victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.As a proper noun Conquest
is the personification of conquest, (also known as Pestilence), often depicted riding a white horse.conquest
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(wikipedia conquest)Noun
(en noun)- Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.
- Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
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invade
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Verb
(invad)- Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.
- Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the grisly shade.
- Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
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- The picnic was invaded by ants.
- The king invaded the rights of the people.